Posted By
Joey Bunch
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July 23, 2012 @ 9:23 pm
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Cross your fingers, Front Range, there’s a chance of some rain the next couple days, but mostly it looks like spotty afternoon downpours. We’re down to this, begging.

Denver has a 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms from Tuesday afternoon through Wednesday morning, when the chances of rain climb to 40 percent. Temperatures should cool off to around 90[1] through the end of the week in the Denver metro region.

The rain, if it falls, could not be more welcome. All of Colorado is in a drought[2], and some places much more so than others. The U.S. Drought Monitor finds that 70.46 percent of the state is in “extreme” to “exceptional” drought. At this time last year, just 16.88 percent of the state was in that category, according to federal climate analysts.

The Southwest monsoon we’re holding out as a hero so far has been a fickle lover, turning on torrents of charm for some locations then disappearing for days, while we languish in its absence.

“Monsoon moisture will continue to sweep over the region Tuesday,” the National Weather Service Office in Grand Junction said Monday. The office goes on to predict a midweek break in the rainy spells before “the monsoon becomes reestablished Friday and will continue through the weekend.”